decentraland/unity-explorer
Jan 2025 – May 2026
16 Months active
Languages Used
C#BinaryShaderLabYAMLJavaMetaUnityScriptprefab
Technical Skills
Bug FixC#Game DevelopmentMap InteractionMap RenderingUI Development
Santi Andrade
PROFILE
Santi Andrade
Over a 16-month period, contributed to decentraland/unity-explorer by delivering end-to-end features such as Communities, Places, and Marketplace Credits, while consistently improving stability and user experience. Leveraging C#, Unity, and TypeScript, implemented robust backend integrations, real-time communication, and UI/UX enhancements, including analytics, event-driven programming, and asset management. Addressed complex challenges like concurrency, error handling, and thread safety, ensuring reliable onboarding, moderation, and social interactions. Regularly refactored code for maintainability, introduced feature flags for controlled rollouts, and optimized performance through caching and asynchronous programming. The work emphasized scalable architecture, seamless navigation, and resilient user-facing systems across the platform.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
60%Features
Repository Contributions
95Total
Bugs
22
Commits
95
Features
33
Lines of code
92,732
Activity Months16
Your Network
42 peopleWork History
May 2026
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for May 2026 focused on decentraland/unity-explorer. Delivered stability improvements to audio and user experience, stabilized community features, and enhanced profile UI reliability while strengthening caching and telemetry to reduce churn and improve developer velocity.
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for May 2026 focused on decentraland/unity-explorer. Delivered stability improvements to audio and user experience, stabilized community features, and enhanced profile UI reliability while strengthening caching and telemetry to reduce churn and improve developer velocity.
May 2026
April 2026
10 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on performance, reliability, and user experience improvements across core features. The work delivered improved data loading efficiency, stability of profile-related flows, resilience of background services, and UI polish, directly reducing user friction and support tickets while enabling faster, more accurate user interactions with events, banners, and chat-related features.
April 2026
10 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on performance, reliability, and user experience improvements across core features. The work delivered improved data loading efficiency, stability of profile-related flows, resilience of background services, and UI polish, directly reducing user friction and support tickets while enabling faster, more accurate user interactions with events, banners, and chat-related features.
March 2026
7 Commits • 5 Features
Mar 1, 2026Month: 2026-03 — Concise monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on business value and technical achievements. Key features delivered include UI/UX and performance improvements for events, relevance improvements for Navmap search, Mac-friendly input behavior, user reporting flows, and API consolidation in Communities. These changes reduce latency, improve user engagement, and simplify maintenance. Major bugs fixed include robust WebSocket error handling in the social service to prevent stale connections and ensure reliable Passport UI behavior. Overall impact: Enhanced live events experience and navigation speed, more relevant search results, smoother Mac interactions, stronger moderation/communication flows, and streamlined Communities code through Destinations API integration. This contributes to higher user satisfaction, faster time-to-value for features, and lower risk of stale connections or broken flows in production. Technologies/skills demonstrated: C#, Unity, real-time WebSocket handling, UI/UX optimization, API integration and refactoring, feature flag usage, and cross-team collaboration (notable co-authored commits).
7 Commits • 5 Features
Mar 1, 2026Month: 2026-03 — Concise monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on business value and technical achievements. Key features delivered include UI/UX and performance improvements for events, relevance improvements for Navmap search, Mac-friendly input behavior, user reporting flows, and API consolidation in Communities. These changes reduce latency, improve user engagement, and simplify maintenance. Major bugs fixed include robust WebSocket error handling in the social service to prevent stale connections and ensure reliable Passport UI behavior. Overall impact: Enhanced live events experience and navigation speed, more relevant search results, smoother Mac interactions, stronger moderation/communication flows, and streamlined Communities code through Destinations API integration. This contributes to higher user satisfaction, faster time-to-value for features, and lower risk of stale connections or broken flows in production. Technologies/skills demonstrated: C#, Unity, real-time WebSocket handling, UI/UX optimization, API integration and refactoring, feature flag usage, and cross-team collaboration (notable co-authored commits).
March 2026
February 2026
8 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering a robust Start Menu experience for events discovery, live engagement, and analytics, while upgrading the core engine and stabilizing UI components.
February 2026
8 Commits • 3 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering a robust Start Menu experience for events discovery, live engagement, and analytics, while upgrading the core engine and stabilizing UI components.
January 2026
7 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026: Delivered a multi-faceted Places experience in the Start Menu (Discover/Places, Favorites, Recently Visited, My Places, Place Cards, search, filters, categories, dynamic counters, and an Events section) to boost navigation, discovery, and engagement. Implemented the Places API endpoint and Place detail panel, enabling richer data and interactions. Reused a unified Place Card view across the Places experience with like/favorites, tags, and events cues. Improved Communities Members List UX by optimizing scrollbar interaction and removing local sorting, reducing client-side complexity and latency. Added localization and UI polish for broader accessibility and consistency.
7 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026: Delivered a multi-faceted Places experience in the Start Menu (Discover/Places, Favorites, Recently Visited, My Places, Place Cards, search, filters, categories, dynamic counters, and an Events section) to boost navigation, discovery, and engagement. Implemented the Places API endpoint and Place detail panel, enabling richer data and interactions. Reused a unified Place Card view across the Places experience with like/favorites, tags, and events cues. Improved Communities Members List UX by optimizing scrollbar interaction and removing local sorting, reducing client-side complexity and latency. Added localization and UI polish for broader accessibility and consistency.
January 2026
December 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 (Month: 2025-12) monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer. Focused on delivering user-centric community features, reliability fixes, and analytics-enabled enhancements that improve engagement and product reliability. Implementations emphasize backend-driven notification preferences, deep linking, UI-state synchronization, and robust data loading for events.
December 2025
6 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 (Month: 2025-12) monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer. Focused on delivering user-centric community features, reliability fixes, and analytics-enabled enhancements that improve engagement and product reliability. Implementations emphasize backend-driven notification preferences, deep linking, UI-state synchronization, and robust data loading for events.
November 2025
9 Commits • 4 Features
Nov 1, 2025Nov 2025 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on delivering privacy, governance, and user experience improvements within Communities, while improving reliability through targeted bug fixes. This period emphasizes business value through privacy controls, ownership governance, and streamlined sharing/copy workflows, aligned with product and user engagement goals.
9 Commits • 4 Features
Nov 1, 2025Nov 2025 monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on delivering privacy, governance, and user experience improvements within Communities, while improving reliability through targeted bug fixes. This period emphasizes business value through privacy controls, ownership governance, and streamlined sharing/copy workflows, aligned with product and user engagement goals.
November 2025
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary highlighting key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and overall impact. Focused on delivering business value through safer multiplayer moderation, robust null-safety, and a controlled rollout strategy across the unity-explorer repo.
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary highlighting key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and overall impact. Focused on delivering business value through safer multiplayer moderation, robust null-safety, and a controlled rollout strategy across the unity-explorer repo.
September 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025Month: 2025-09 — This month focused on delivering end-to-end private communities functionality in decentraland/unity-explorer, along with UI and backend improvements to stabilize community interactions, and a key layout bug fix in warnings. Key outcomes included a robust Private Communities feature with invitation and request flows, onboarding of corresponding backend endpoints, and integrated notifications. Community Card, browser, and context-menu enhancements were implemented to support scalable access control and richer user experiences. A critical layout bug for warnings was resolved, improving visibility and feedback using the SystemNotification system. Overall, the work improved user collaboration, access control granularity, and system reliability, while expanding the team's technical capabilities and code quality through iterative refactoring and comprehensive testing. Technologies and practices demonstrated include Unity/C# development, UI/UX orchestration, backend API integration and endpoint usage, asynchronous loading of dynamic UI elements (context menus), and a consolidated notification system.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025Month: 2025-09 — This month focused on delivering end-to-end private communities functionality in decentraland/unity-explorer, along with UI and backend improvements to stabilize community interactions, and a key layout bug fix in warnings. Key outcomes included a robust Private Communities feature with invitation and request flows, onboarding of corresponding backend endpoints, and integrated notifications. Community Card, browser, and context-menu enhancements were implemented to support scalable access control and richer user experiences. A critical layout bug for warnings was resolved, improving visibility and feedback using the SystemNotification system. Overall, the work improved user collaboration, access control granularity, and system reliability, while expanding the team's technical capabilities and code quality through iterative refactoring and comprehensive testing. Technologies and practices demonstrated include Unity/C# development, UI/UX orchestration, backend API integration and endpoint usage, asynchronous loading of dynamic UI elements (context menus), and a consolidated notification system.
September 2025
August 2025
2 Commits
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 (2025-08) monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on Community stability fixes and UI reliability. Two bug fixes delivered in August: 1) Community – Fix member duplication when scrolling; 2) Community Creation Wizard – Stabilize UI during place selection. Implemented improvements to RefreshGrid logic and UI scroll handling to eliminate duplicates and misplacements, delivering tangible business value such as improved data integrity, smoother user onboarding for new communities, and reduced support friction. Key technical outcomes include targeted state management, UI refresh with isLastPage flag, and dynamic enabling/disabling of scrolling during dropdown interactions. Demonstrates strong debugging, C# Unity UI skills, and commit-driven traceability.
August 2025
2 Commits
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 (2025-08) monthly summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focusing on Community stability fixes and UI reliability. Two bug fixes delivered in August: 1) Community – Fix member duplication when scrolling; 2) Community Creation Wizard – Stabilize UI during place selection. Implemented improvements to RefreshGrid logic and UI scroll handling to eliminate duplicates and misplacements, delivering tangible business value such as improved data integrity, smoother user onboarding for new communities, and reduced support friction. Key technical outcomes include targeted state management, UI refresh with isLastPage flag, and dynamic enabling/disabling of scrolling during dropdown interactions. Demonstrates strong debugging, C# Unity UI skills, and commit-driven traceability.
July 2025
13 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 summary for decentraland/unity-explorer: Delivered the comprehensive Communities feature end-to-end, including browsing/joining/management UI, creation workflow, event support, user roles, and data/backend integration. Implemented data-layer simplifications and chat integration with per-user chat state and profile ties to enhance social interactions within the explorer. Added UI polish, motion, and behavior refinements across the Communities experience, and completed stability and persistence work (local storage for chats, removal of legacy data providers). Represented by a coordinated set of main-branch commits across shaping and polishing work to improve engagement and reliability.
13 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 summary for decentraland/unity-explorer: Delivered the comprehensive Communities feature end-to-end, including browsing/joining/management UI, creation workflow, event support, user roles, and data/backend integration. Implemented data-layer simplifications and chat integration with per-user chat state and profile ties to enhance social interactions within the explorer. Added UI polish, motion, and behavior refinements across the Communities experience, and completed stability and persistence work (local storage for chats, removal of legacy data providers). Represented by a coordinated set of main-branch commits across shaping and polishing work to improve engagement and reliability.
July 2025
June 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 highlights for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on onboarding improvements and analytics stability. Delivered aUX-forward feature to accelerate user engagement and fixed a critical analytics refresh bug to ensure accurate data during asset/config updates.
June 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 highlights for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on onboarding improvements and analytics stability. Delivered aUX-forward feature to accelerate user engagement and fixed a critical analytics refresh bug to ensure accurate data during asset/config updates.
May 2025
13 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 performance summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering user-valuable features, improving stability, and enabling richer interactions in the explorer. Key deliveries include Marketplace Credits Feature Enhancements (updated links, tracking, email workflow integration, and loading-screen tips), interactive Backpack Marketplace Button, and Map and Navigation UI Improvements with state preservation and UI polish. Robustness and edge-case handling were strengthened across several areas (Passport Display, Realm Fallback, and Chat Command Parsing) to reduce crashes and improve user trust. These efforts underpin a smoother onboarding experience, higher engagement, and more reliable navigation and marketplace interactions for end users. Key business value and outcomes: - Improved in-app marketplace flows and trust signals through up-to-date links, tracking, and secure, user-friendly interactions. - Increased user engagement and time-to-market velocity by enabling clickable marketplace access directly from the Backpack UI. - Enhanced map/navigation reliability and user experience with state persistence, correct UI mappings, refined skybox/time slider behavior, and clear reopen behavior. - Reduced edge-case failures with robust realm fallback logic and resilient chat command parsing. Technical highlights and traceability: - Marketplace Credits feature: commits include 97b96e2c3925896950c05f4e3ff2510101a143ff, 01e68075bf8d390acb6d60d93d5b0bd1d16e2bb9, ab527c7212604f04d1e8025d7eb71288be4d177c, 8ff4d0796bf749afa39cc0e7f33fa4954f7fe846, ddadedc6885532a673d6cd43f5fd98ebfced8130 - Backpack Marketplace Button: 49bd2e67f39b9018af3d06db80f1160aa5ffb899 - Map/Navigation UI: 875e68c5bbf54e529ddaa9da04f6b02c228ca1cd, 52f50ab7ab4ccaa739aebfea9fde5e0d9db68fc0, d1ed280594cf1beacfb9baf1096569872f1b6d72, c38bed83bb478bba4a03cec70eb896d4dacb078d - Passport Display: 4c4a4769574bf2e66b4ff39fecdf83fa30bc3470 - Realm Fallback and Chat Command Parsing: 8801e453c2139802e24ba96f4918fdcca965cbca, 0f4ac04e18281f7e8864bf432b280a79615ef48f Note: All changes are scoped to the decentraland/unity-explorer repository for the May 2025 period.
13 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 performance summary for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering user-valuable features, improving stability, and enabling richer interactions in the explorer. Key deliveries include Marketplace Credits Feature Enhancements (updated links, tracking, email workflow integration, and loading-screen tips), interactive Backpack Marketplace Button, and Map and Navigation UI Improvements with state preservation and UI polish. Robustness and edge-case handling were strengthened across several areas (Passport Display, Realm Fallback, and Chat Command Parsing) to reduce crashes and improve user trust. These efforts underpin a smoother onboarding experience, higher engagement, and more reliable navigation and marketplace interactions for end users. Key business value and outcomes: - Improved in-app marketplace flows and trust signals through up-to-date links, tracking, and secure, user-friendly interactions. - Increased user engagement and time-to-market velocity by enabling clickable marketplace access directly from the Backpack UI. - Enhanced map/navigation reliability and user experience with state persistence, correct UI mappings, refined skybox/time slider behavior, and clear reopen behavior. - Reduced edge-case failures with robust realm fallback logic and resilient chat command parsing. Technical highlights and traceability: - Marketplace Credits feature: commits include 97b96e2c3925896950c05f4e3ff2510101a143ff, 01e68075bf8d390acb6d60d93d5b0bd1d16e2bb9, ab527c7212604f04d1e8025d7eb71288be4d177c, 8ff4d0796bf749afa39cc0e7f33fa4954f7fe846, ddadedc6885532a673d6cd43f5fd98ebfced8130 - Backpack Marketplace Button: 49bd2e67f39b9018af3d06db80f1160aa5ffb899 - Map/Navigation UI: 875e68c5bbf54e529ddaa9da04f6b02c228ca1cd, 52f50ab7ab4ccaa739aebfea9fde5e0d9db68fc0, d1ed280594cf1beacfb9baf1096569872f1b6d72, c38bed83bb478bba4a03cec70eb896d4dacb078d - Passport Display: 4c4a4769574bf2e66b4ff39fecdf83fa30bc3470 - Realm Fallback and Chat Command Parsing: 8801e453c2139802e24ba96f4918fdcca965cbca, 0f4ac04e18281f7e8864bf432b280a79615ef48f Note: All changes are scoped to the decentraland/unity-explorer repository for the May 2025 period.
May 2025
April 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 performance for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering flexible version control, monetization features, and stability improvements that collectively boost business value and user satisfaction. Key outcomes include a new conditional version verification via a skip-version-check flag, the Marketplace Credits feature with UI and backend integration to drive engagement and monetization, and a stability fix that prevents NullReferenceExceptions when Marketplace Credits isn’t opened. These efforts reduce interruptions, enable more flexible workflows in non-editor contexts, and strengthen the product’s monetization capability while improving overall resilience.
April 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 performance for decentraland/unity-explorer focused on delivering flexible version control, monetization features, and stability improvements that collectively boost business value and user satisfaction. Key outcomes include a new conditional version verification via a skip-version-check flag, the Marketplace Credits feature with UI and backend integration to drive engagement and monetization, and a stability fix that prevents NullReferenceExceptions when Marketplace Credits isn’t opened. These efforts reduce interruptions, enable more flexible workflows in non-editor contexts, and strengthen the product’s monetization capability while improving overall resilience.
February 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025In February 2025, the decentraland/unity-explorer team delivered a focused set of user-visible enhancements and stability fixes that improve avatar motion, UI consistency, road rendering, and physics boundary handling. Key outcomes include smoother avatar transitions via motion interpolation, ensured complete road geometry rendering, a consistent nametag presentation, and robust collider handling at scene edges. These work items enhance user immersion, reduce visual glitches, and improve maintainability for future iterations. Commit-level traceability is provided via the embedded hashes for quick review and audits.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025In February 2025, the decentraland/unity-explorer team delivered a focused set of user-visible enhancements and stability fixes that improve avatar motion, UI consistency, road rendering, and physics boundary handling. Key outcomes include smoother avatar transitions via motion interpolation, ensured complete road geometry rendering, a consistent nametag presentation, and robust collider handling at scene edges. These work items enhance user immersion, reduce visual glitches, and improve maintainability for future iterations. Commit-level traceability is provided via the embedded hashes for quick review and audits.
February 2025
January 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance update: Delivered key map-related improvements and stability fixes for decentraland/unity-explorer. Enhancements improve user navigation, reduce UI duplicates, and ensure Twitter/X sharing messages are correctly encoded. These changes enhance user experience, reduce friction in map interactions, and improve reliability of social sharing.
January 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance update: Delivered key map-related improvements and stability fixes for decentraland/unity-explorer. Enhancements improve user navigation, reduce UI duplicates, and ensure Twitter/X sharing messages are correctly encoded. These changes enhance user experience, reduce friction in map interactions, and improve reliability of social sharing.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness88.4%
Maintainability85.0%
Architecture83.2%
Performance83.8%
AI Usage28.8%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
BinaryC#JSONJavaMetaShaderLabTypeScriptUnityUnityScriptYAML
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI integrationAnalytics ImplementationAnalytics IntegrationAnimationAsset ManagementAsynchronous ProgrammingAudio ProgrammingAvatar SystemsBackend DevelopmentBackend IntegrationBug FixBug FixingC#
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